Something in My Eye: Stories (19 page)

MICHAEL JEFFREY LEE lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he earns his living as a typist, a waiter, and a nightclub singer. A frequent contributor to
Conjunctions
, he is also an Associate Fiction Editor at the
New Orleans Review
. He is at work on a novel.

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© 2012 by Michael Jeffrey Lee

 

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Lee, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)
Something in my eye : stories / Michael J. Lee.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-936-74737-5

I. Title.
PS3612.E3455S66 2011
813'.6—dc23

 

2011025306

 

 

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